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The Web And Me.

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This web site is the new version of the copy of one of first
personal sites of mine, about Monte Argentario, which I built in
1997. It is not long time ago, I know, but in the Internet, it is as
if it had passed more than a century. In the same time
while I was doing it, here, in Porto S. Stefano, some friends of mine
tried to develop projects and tried to take the way of the Web as
their own jobs, but they had to quit and look for regular jobs
in short time. It was because the immaturity of times, where
people didn't succeed to recognize the utility and what the Web
would have become in relative short time. At that time when you talked
about the Internet it was like you talked about pornography.

I didn't have a domain at that time, I
couldn't afford its expenses, and my sites were hosted on servers which
offered a bit of free space. These servers have allowed us, little
developers of small web sites, to train and share our knowledge and our skills
with other people like us, increasing the huge database that the
Internet is. Before this one, I succeeded to have a web page on a US
server, I think it was called maxipage.com, I don't remember well (as
soon as I hear Debbie, I ask it to her, she surely remembers it), I got
that page for short time, it was about the use of computer and Windows.
I compiled that page with notebook of Windows; it didn't come out so bad.
It was allowed to put a photo on the page, so I put one of my old
computer.
I was lucky, I had a scanner, a tool that I paid a lot of money (as we
say: an eye of our head), but it gave me a lot of satisfaction and by it
I digitalized tons of pictures, which have been of big effect on all
sites of mine. Later I bought a digital camera; it was an incredible
thing, to see the photo just taken on its display in a while. For the
construction of that little page, that is, for the transfer of the only
picture, I had to install the newest Netscape Navigator, if I didn't
remember badly, it was version 3.00 and I had to pay it as well. I
had to do that, because, the newest Internet Explorer, embedded in
Windows 95, I think even that was version 3, but it didn't support
java, so it did not allow me to use the FTP program, which they put at
disposal of their users. Later on, I
worked on a sub domain of Freeyellow for a bit of time. It offered 500
KB of
free space and it seemed, who knows how much space it were. The strangest thing
of that web server was that you had to choose a sponsor from a list,
before starting your site construction, I chose one and then it was a
weapon builder, thing absolutely antithetic respect my thought. I recognized it only after things were already done, so I accepted
it and I shut my mouth down. With the help and the advice of my American
friend Debbie J. Swanson, from Minnesota, who actually taught me a lot
of things, practically in few words, she taught me to build web pages.
So I built a good web site for then, I made it almost completely in
wysiwyg (how it was easy) through the compiler that is resident in Netscape Navigator
4.00
.
I called it: my red site, it was in Italian and in English and it made
good publicity at Monte Argentario along many years, with many visitors
and it is not long time they closed it, but I opportunely rebuilt it,
not long time ago (November 2004), on a domain of mine.

After short time, a friend of
mine made me know that nice server which GoPlay was, it didn't
have pop up windows, no publicity on your pages: in fact, in two
years they closed it, what a pity! That server gave 2 MB, with
some little tricks you could take more sub domains, link each
other, so you could have enough space to develop great projects.
And I left behind the work on Freeyellow and I developed the
original of this web site on GoPlay. Then many other web sites
were linked to my one, even though some of them died with the
end of that server. I remember I linked the one of Paoletta
Tana, about the Convent
Of Fathers "Passionisti" of our mountain tha was a nice and
a very
interesting web site. The peculiarity of GoPlay was the permission
to use external FTP programs, thing completely unthinkable on
other free servers. This made the transfer of files to remote
folders faster, and the management of the whole site sensibly better . It was
the top, one could ask to a free server. The first draft of the
web site of the Association Argentario Vivo was on GoPlay, with
even three sub domains linked each other. Later these pages were
transferred without any change to their own domain, after having
stayed just for short time on a free space given by Tiscali. It
was very good to work on that web site, with the complete
collaboration of one of the members of their council Gianluca Gozzo, who
helped me both to develop that project and to transfer files to
remote folders too. Then it is even a good job, it is a
graphically elegant site, if we consider the technical ways to
build sites at that time, and the programs we used to make them. Then I made some nice sites as the one
of the painter Busonero Stefano, with his microscopic, but
exceptional works. Also the first draft of the web of Big Byte
Computer, or better my friend Roberto's web site was on GoPlay,
where we hosted the works of the painter Arturo Stronchi, and to
make his gallery I had to link four sub domains, because the
whole gallery was too large to reside into an only folder.
At the same time I made, in a couple of days, the project "The
Tools Of The Sea", with which I tried to change my policy,
before then all of the sites of mine were tourist ones, so I made
this one not rearding tourism at all. For that site I took space on
GeoCities, which was, maybe still it is, a huge community of
developers. It was long time since I have been there, I think
it's time to go there again. To translate that web site and one that
is resident on one subdirectory of theirs, in other words: "The
Palio Marinaro of Monte Argentario", I was helped by Elizabeth
Genovesi. She was the only people had the patience and the
constancy to attend my classes to learn to build web pages. She
was a good student, she strongly believed on the develop of the
Internet; now she lives in Rome and we lost our touches, it is a
pity..